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Zapaday
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2012/06/01/zapaday/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 1, 2012 http://www.zapaday.com/home/ has launched a news service that publishes breaking future news headlines.
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British Future
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2012/09/03/british-future/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on September 3, 2012 http://www.britishfuture.
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ITN Productions launches citizen journalism channel
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2012/12/13/itn-productions-launches-citizen-journalism-channel/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on December 13, 2012 http://www.youtube.com/user/truthloader A new initiative to encourage citizen reporters to help shape news stories called Truthloader. See the mission statement video via YouTube.
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World’s Muslims: Unity and Diversity
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2012/08/17/worlds-muslims-unity-and-diversity/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 17, 2012 http://www.pewforum.org/Muslim/the-worlds-muslims-unity-and-diversity-executive-summary.
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Urban Gems/Happiness
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2012/09/28/urban-gemshappiness/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on September 28, 2012 http://urbangems.org/ A new academic project that aims to crowd source what citizens like about cities and what makes them happy.
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American presidency and social media
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2012/11/16/american-presidency-and-social-media/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 16, 2012 http://techpresident.com/news/23104/help-digital-infrastructure-obama-wins-re-election TechPresident has a good review of the role of social media in the election.
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Mapping Digital Media
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2012/11/16/mapping-digital-media/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 16, 2012 The Center for International Media Assistance in partnership with the Open Society Foundations, announced the publication of an interactive map The project examines the global...
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Syria’s internet blackout
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2012/12/18/syrias-internet-blackout/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on December 18, 2012 Google launches speak to tweet service because of Syria’s internet blackout, a good example of the use of social media to provide crisis communications.
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New interactive guide to humanitarian financing
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/02/01/new-interactive-guide-to-humanitarian-financing/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 1, 2013 http://www.globalhumanitarianassistance.org/data-guides/humanitarian-aid-network Based on the Global Humanitarian Assistance reports http://www.globalhumanitarianassistance.
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Net Children Go Mobile Project
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/02/01/net-children-go-mobile-project/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 1, 2013 http://www.netchildrengomobile.eu/ A new project funded by the Safer Internet Programme of the European Commission has been launched.